99StationAG said:
ILTX College Station is a fantastic option, is a Charter School and Public, and is available to anyone interested, regardless of location/address. You apply and get into the waiting list "pool," and because they are public, they don't handpick, it's more of a lottery, with some weight put on siblings, etc.
The tri-lingual (English, Spanish, Chinese) aspect is very "user friendly," meaning they will plug in kiddos to the appropriate level, even if they are brand new to this part, and haven't been attending and studying the languages from the beginning(IE Kinder or 1st).
The Athletics are pretty hit and miss still, as the school here is still relatively young(4th year), but many serious Athletes choose to play Club sports outside of school anyway.
We've been there since our kiddo started Kinder, and she's now in 3rd. Have really enjoyed the fact that we moved locally during this timeframe, and didn't have to worry about that one bit!
Our daughter has been at ILT since kinder as well and she absolutely loves it. She is now midway through 2nd grade, in the GT program and thriving. In nearly 3 years of education we have no regrets, not to mention they were better than both public districts through Covid in our opinion. Discipline was a big factor for us, ILT's vision of "well behaved" seems to align with ours really well.
Also the fact that it doesn't matter where you live is a big plus, you can live anywhere and still have your child in the same system K-12. There are cons as well, no bussing, sports are a little diminished compared to public etc. As for pure quality of education it would be hard to beat ILT in my opinion.